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- Why Being a Control Freak Isn't So Bad
- Why Being a Control Freak Isn't So BadA control freak makes group dynamics weak!Great story, and many people are 'light' control freaks! Unfortunately I can not support the opinion to cheer for'em...Conrol freaks with too high ambitions, are highly destructive for a team and its dynamics, due to their manipulative...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-24
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- Why Being a Control Freak Isn't So Bad
- The Find: The term control freak isn't usually considered a compliment, but one executive coach feels that the tendency to crave control actually offers significant advantages in business. The Source: Cheryl Cran writing on the Brazen Careerist blog. The Takeaway:...
- Blog posts 2008-06-23
- Are You A Control Freak?: 5 Ways To Stop
- Infant businesses can't thrive without a founder's laser focus and passionate attention to detail. But as chaos subsides and business starts chugging along, take-charge Dr. Jekylls often turn into Mr. Hydes, loosing their inner demon: the control freak. Usually, entrepreneurs are so involved in nurturing their baby businesses, so breathlessly...
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- Ex-Cliff Freeman CEO Says Former Boss Was Ruinous Control Freak
- Jeff McClelland, former CEO of Cliff Freeman & Partners, blasted the shop's founder as a control freak who is stuck in the past and is threatening the future of his own shop, Adweek reports. CF&P has been on a downward spiral for months. The storied shop now has only one...
- Blog posts 2009-07-10
- Sales managers...and other control freaks.
- A few posts ago, I lambasted technology that wastes more time than it saves. I was expecting a chorus of agreement from sales reps, but what I got were grumblings from sales managers who simply adore CRM... because it lets them spy on their employees.Of course, it's that "Big...
- Blog posts 2007-06-13
- NFL.com 2009: When Control Freaks Meet Twitter
- Twitter is tough for control freaks. Sure, you get to send your own message and skip the middle men—usually the media— but once it’s out there, you have no say about who picks it up, how they re-frame it to share if they share it at all or what...
- External links 2009-09-08
- Group Dynamics: Learning to Work With Control Freaks
- A few months ago, I wrote a post about one of the major components of our MBA program -- "group learning." Many of our classes include a group project or group homework. At the time, I was highly optimistic about my team's group dynamics. We all have...
- Blog posts 2008-03-12
- Don’t Touch That Technology -- Please
- I got a link to an interview transcript from On the Media, the NPR program about the media industry, and had to pass it on because it’s one of the smarter discussions on technology and the Internet I’ve seen in a while. Jonathan Zittrain was hawking his new book, The...
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- Flying Solo: The One-Person In-House SEO Team
- As in an-house SEO specialist, you may well find yourself solely responsible for your company's search engine marketing. It is not uncommon for an organization to limit their human investment in SEO to a single individual, particularly for new web ventures or where existing search marketing efforts are just being...
- News items 2009-11-19
- THE JOEL TEST.
- As a "pipsqueak" junior programmer at Microsoft, Joel Spolsky saw a few death-march projects and occasionally locked horns with control-freak bosses. But most of the time, Spolsky says, Microsoft provided a supportive environment "wher As a "pipsqueak" junior programmer at Microsoft, Joel Spolsky saw a...
- Research articles 2001-04-13
- HP.(Workshops)
- HP (www.hp.com), in cooperation with GretagMacbeth and the GIA, will sponsor "Color Control Freak," a seminar to provide graphic designers, art directors, and professional photographers with creative perspectives on Digital Color. The sem HP (www.hp.com), in cooperation with GretagMacbeth and the GIA, will...
- Research articles 2006-01-01
- X-Rite and Pantone Release a New Seminar for Color Freaks
- Color Seminar for Those Who Take Color Seriously GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- X-Rite, Incorporated (NASDAQ:XRIT) - Pantone and the color experts at X-Rite Color Services today announced the 2008 release of the company's highly popular seminar "Color Control Freak". With a completely revised curriculum, Color Control Freak 08 offers...
- Research articles 2008-01-15
- So When Did Your Boss Become an Authoritarian?
- So When Did Your Boss Become an Authoritarian?RE: So When Did Your Boss Become an Authoritarian?Responsibility accountability and authority, these should go hand in hand. Sometimes there is a disconnect as well as a person may be given the authority and responsibility but not given guidance on the limits...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-19
- CRM Is Not for Micromanagers
- As pitched by vendors, customer relationship management technology is a control freak's dream. CRM systems promise executives every last excruciating detail on sales-force activity, customer service transactions and customer behavior. Vendors also claim CRM systems will provide executives with an X-ray of organizational activity, giving them the control they crave...
- Research articles 2003-04-01
- Control freak out of control
- Stephen Glover on why the government's chief spokesman spells long-term trouble for Mr Blair because other media will prove harder to bully than the BBC IT IS difficult to exaggerate the spinechilling effect which two attacks by Alastair Campbell and Tim Allan have had on journalists at the BBC. `It...
- Research articles 1998-02-14
- Potential Manager Flaws
- I recently finished reading Why Smart Executives Fail by Sydney Finkelstein. While some observers try to argue that companies fail because the lack of intelligence of their senior executives, Finkelstein argues that it is flaws in the personality that cause failure. Mimicking Steven Covey, Finkelstein lists the seven habits of...
- Blog posts 2009-03-03
- The Traits of Winning -- and Losing -- Entrepreneurs
- Everyone knows a good entrepreneur needs to be unrelenting, but what happens when that persistence becomes stubbornness? There is often a fine line between a winning and non-winning attribute, as Harvard MBA and Cue Ball CEO Anthony Tjan has made clear on his Harvard Business Publishing blog. Here is his...
- Blog posts 2009-05-07
- Don't Tolerate Crazy Bosses.
- A few posts ago, I launched a worst sales manager contest. You readers came up with some definite doozies, but the best of the worst as it were was:Hes arrogant, hes sarcastic and hes the ultimate control freak. He fights (yes, physical slapping and kicking) with the other sales...
- Blog posts 2007-05-14
- Worst Sales Manager Contest
- Worst Sales Manager ContestA suggestion...I should think that the pedagogical value of these horror stories is rather obvious: "Don't do these things if you want to be an effective sales manager."-- GeoffreyYou win!This was the worst. Please email me with your snail-mail address so that I can send you...
- Discussion threads 2007-05-03
- Don't Tolerate Crazy Bosses.
- Don't Tolerate Crazy Bosses.Crazy Clients...I agree. I've terminated client relationships for no other reason than they were too high maintenance. If you spend too much energy on a toxic client, your other accounts suffer. Better to replace them than be a "work martyr."What about crazy clients?I'm a...
- Discussion threads 2007-05-15
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